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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sacrosanct" data-source="post: 8860573" data-attributes="member: 15700">I think when we talk about people in general, when you say "Here's a version that's easier to learn, less rules for you to memorize, and there's a social contract that says since you're putting in most of the work and are running the game, you can build the world as you want and aren't forced to include things that you don't want in that game.", that's going to be more appealing than the opposite to someone who is thinking about DMing.  You might think "it doesn't make a damn bit of difference", but I think it makes a pretty big one.  Easier to play + empowerment are carrots, so-to-speak for DMs.  Especially when you factor for a lot of players, time is precious, and we don't have all weekend to play games.And we know this.  How?  From all the DMs who will refuse to DM certain editions for those reasons.</blockquote>